[HPN] ALERT: Patrol car video was off when homeless suspect was shotdead, police say FWD dead, police say FWD

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it is a wonder
  no one has come up with a conspiracy wherein the "homeless cadre" is sending
suicide terrorists out to undermine the law enforcment community. brilliant,
take folks who would like to get out any way and teach them to confront the
law in ways which lead the officers to, "with in the rules of engagement" , do
their suicide.no bridge and john law is  hung out in the breeze. a doctor
would be arrested , but a cop ?
   did these folks not know what the cops would do ?






Tom Boland wrote:

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> http://www.joplinglobe.com/000212/headline/story1.html
> FWD  Joplin Globe - February 12, 2000
>
>      POLICE: SUSPECT WAS HOMELESS MAN
>      EIGHT WITNESSES QUESTIONED IN SHOOTING BY OFFICERS
>
>      By Gary Garton - Globe Staff Writer
>
> MIAMI, Okla. - Eight witnesses were being questioned Friday by police in
> the investigation of the fatal shooting of a robbery suspect by two police
> officers on Thursday.
>
> Police also were gathering warrants to search the dead manís living
> quarters at a local homeless shelter and his car, found parked at the
> shelter.
>
> Police Chief Gary Anderson said the man who was shot was Douglas Pickens,
> 44. He reportedly had moved to the area from California and had been living
> at the Souls Harbor shelter in Miami.
>
> Anderson said the National Crime Information Computer listed several former
> felony convictions for Pickens in other states. He said he would not
> discuss details until his department's investigation of the shooting is
> turned over to the district attorney's office.
>
> The chief identified the two officers involved in the incident as Sgt.
> Phillip Brice, who has been with the department nine years, and Detective
> Steve Johnston, a 17-year veteran of the department. Anderson said the
> officers are on administrative leave with pay pending the outcome of the
> investigation.
>
> Anderson said a man walked into Loveís Country Store on East Steve Owens
> Boulevard at 5:34 p.m. Thursday, went behind the counter and took money
> from a cash register. Anderson said store personnel have disputed an
> initial report on the amount of money taken in the robbery. That report
> said $178 was taken.
>
> He said the store manager confronted the man as he was leaving the store,
> and the robber produced a hatchet that had been concealed under his
> clothing. The manager did not try to stop the man, who walked away from the
> store.
>
> Anderson said Brice, responding to the robbery alert, saw a man fitting the
> description of the robber walking east along the side of the street about
> four blocks from the store.
>
> As Brice stopped and got out of his patrol car, he was joined by Johnston,
> who was off duty but had responded to the robbery alert to assist other
> officers.
>
> "Both officers got out of their cars and told the man to stop," Anderson
> said. "He ignored their orders, then hesitated and turned, starting toward
> Sergeant Brice."
>
> The chief said the man pulled a hatchet from under his clothing and raised
> it in a threatening gesture as he started toward Brice.
>
> "He raised the hatchet and started advancing rapidly," Anderson said. "Both
> officers again told him to stop, but he had covered over half the distance
> between himself and Sergeant Brice, who fired his weapon at that point.
> Detective Johnston also fired."
>
> Brice called the dispatcher, reported that shots had been fired and asked
> for an ambulance. Paramedics reported the man was dead when they arrived.
>
> "There are six to eight people who have varying degrees of knowledge about
> what happened, who either saw all or parts of the incident," Anderson said.
>
> "Their statements are being taken by our detectives, and the investigation
> is being monitored by the Ottawa County sheriffís office as an independent
> outside agency."
>
> The chief said a videotape from the convenience store surveillance camera
> was being reviewed.
>
> He said a video camera in Brice's patrol car was not activated when the
> officer got out to confront the suspect.
>
> "Some of the cameras are not keyed to come on unless the officer turns on
> the overhead light bar on the car," he said. "Some of these older cameras
> are not working properly either. We're trying to determine why the camera
> in the patrol car was not activated."
>
> Detective Randy Jameson and three other members of the Miami police
> investigative staff were assigned to conduct the probe. Anderson said
> Sheriff Dennis King was accompanying them to monitor the investigation."
>
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